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Consilience with Pete and Charlie: the Intersection of Science and the Humanities
Consilience with Pete and Charlie: the Intersection of Science and the Humanities episodes
- Episode 011: Inventions, Engineers, and Learning by Doing
Pete and Charlie pursue class creation, the GaTech/UGA rivalry, studio teaching, Vulcans, artists, design, problem-based learning, Z-racks, PVC pipe, cyanide salts, BPA, homasote, pretzel bread, and chicken wire.
1 hr 1 min - Episode 010: Kanye West, Chemistry, and the Check Engine Light
Pete and Charlie dabble in opera, catalysts, holiday staffing, WOVEN, car maintenance, fail-safes, floor coverings, witches, science fiction, vegetarianism, jazz, and questioning doctors.
1 hr 1 min - Episode 009: Coffee, Hedgehogs, and Ten-apple Pies
Pete and Charlie struggle with urchins, The Sixth Sense, transport, baldness, driving forces, coffee, unit conversion errors, and fracking.
38 min - Episode 008: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Inside Baseball
Pete and Charlie toss around Moneyball, parenthood, STEM, The Trouble With The Curve, jargon, Hokies, and biodegradable packaging.
34 min - Episode 007: Balance, Nostalgia, and Reading Moby-Dick
Pete and Charlie sort out Happy Days, cynicism, rainy days, cold opens, digital natives, gratuitous sex, cross-products, cornstarch, product integration, and Jolly Ranchers.
56 min - Shameless Self-promotion
Pete and Charlie take a few minutes to tell you how to get in touch and ask a favor.
4 min - Episode 006: Triangles, Taxidermy, and Bloom's Taxonomy
Pete and Charlie tackle Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains along with carbohydrates, the Flat Earth Society, mnemonics, multiplication, titration, smoking, scaffolding, being on fire, and turkey bacon.
36 min - Episode 005: Management, Marketing, and Making the Grade
Pete and Charlie chew on test-taking, grading, Scantron, marketing STEM, sports in their youth, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, assessment plans, Back To School, teaching vs. research, and weed-out courses.
38 min - Episode 004: Classrooms, Quarks, and Claiming the Conch
Pete and Charlie circle lecture styles, classroom behavior, science narratives old and new, Lord of the Flies, the Higgs-Boson blues, student engagement, Facebook, and James Joyce.
Mentioned during the show: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Amazon link).
37 min - Episode 003: Factoids, Consensus, and Fighting Wikipedia
Pete and Charlie chase after teleology, gravity, Wikipedia, fact-checking, refutation, and the platypus.
38 min
About Consilience with Pete and Charlie: the Intersection of Science and the Humanities
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Consilience with Pete and Charlie is a podcast about the intersection of science and the humanities after all the lights start blinking and the cars crash into each other and everyone is screaming but…
no one is hurt because they were all wearing seatbelts.